Councils choose to digitise!

We’re currently working on an astonishing number of microfiche and microfilm digitisation projects within the Council sector.

For decades, microfilm and microfiche was the storage media of choice, for the reason it was one of the most durable and largest capacity storage mediums at that time. Many councils store past building information, town planning and development applications on microfiche and microfilm however, today find it difficult to access and difficult to find relevant information quickly.

Our team are travelling around Australia collecting microfilm and microfiche, cataloguing and preparing for digitisation.

DatacomIT is proud to announce that the ST ViewScan III microfilm scanner was awarded the Platinum Modern Library Award for 2017. The ST ViewScan III is the only microfilm scanner to win 3 consecutive Platinum Modern Library Awards - 2015, 2016 & 2017.

\'Digitization\' and digitalization\' are two conceptual terms that are closely associated and often used interchangeably in a broad range of literatures. You might want to argue that there is analytical value in explicitly making a clear distinction between these two terms.

DatacomIT recently digitised a confronting, however, amazing collection of watercolour paintings by artist and writer Daryl Lindsay for the Australasian College of Surgeons as well as a collection of medals that were awarded to various individuals by the college.

In 1918, Daryl Lindsay was posted to Queens Hospital in Sidcup, Kent, England, where he painted patient’s horrific facial injuries and the ground breaking reconstructive surgery being preformed there. His diagrams, and those of other medical artists, were used to train surgeons worldwide.

DatacomIT recently completed the Digitisation of the Australian Army Journal (AAJ). The Journal commenced publication in 1948 as a medium through which a convey military information and stimulate military thought. It was published monthly until 1976 and then from 1999 with between one and four publications per annum.

After recently completing a project to digitise a collection of records from microfiche, we were once again chosen by the State of Victoria to undertake the digitisation of numerous geological records both from large format maps (some up to 5 metres long) as well as historical bound documents and records.

As the end of the financial year approaches DatacomIT have yet again recorded another successful month of 18 STViewScan III units sold. This last dispatch of 5 STViewScan III units for the month are heading west to State Records Office of WA who after going to tender with the view of purchasing the new ScanPro 3000, ultimately choose the higher native resolution STViewScan III.

It was great to witness the reaction of the audience; shocked, amazed and taken back by the advanced technology and how visitors could visualise the use of the MagicBox in their own environment. DatacomIT have arranged mini bus transport for organisations to privately view the MagicBox at DatacomIT head office in Melbourne.

DatacomIT has recently completed the digitisation of an historical collection of High Court Registers for the High Court of Australia. The very large leather bound journals spanned a period of over 100 years and DatacomIT digitised the content to a very high specification. The output files included a number of

With the recent launch of the all new ST600 Touch Screen Kiosk Book Scanner, DatacomIT are delighted to have received such positive feedback from its clients.
Although all clients have admired the ST600's ability to auto detect, crop and correct page curvature from bound volumes, it was great to receive feedback

Clients comment \"Thank you so much for sending these through - they look fabulous. Kindest regards and thanks again for the speedy turnaround. I will definitely be recommending your services to anyone who needs data entry\".

DatacomIT has assisted the National Library of Australia with scanning many millions of newspaper pages for Trove.
In late 2014 DatacomIT proudly digitised a number of Chinese- Australian newspapers that are now loaded to Trove.
Now available on Trove are three of the earliest known Chinese-Australian newspapers.
The Chinese Australian Herald, 1894-1923 (Guang